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This is a visual drill to help you imagine the right path of the club. Remember, your body can't do something until you can imagine it and the clearer the image, the better your chance of execution.
To use this visualization, imagine that you are standing in a pool of water that is up to your mid thighs. If you were to cast (straighten your trail arm and wrist), then clubhead would hit the water before the handle. But, if you were to swing efficiently, then the first thing to hit the pool would be the handle of the club.
Why do golfers have a hard time creating lag?
For a lot of golfers, this image looks great, but is hard to practically apply. You need to make sure that you are shallowing the club with the arms during transition, or else you won't be able to maintain the lag into the release. Also, releasing the arms is one way to square the face, if you don't train the motorcycle movement at the top of the swing, then you will need to do something else with your arms to not hit the ball to the right.
Tags: Cast, Drill, Beginner
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This drill is called swinging in a swimming pool and this is to help you overcome the
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cast or upper body or over the top swing pattern. So if you remember from the overview
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video a cast or upper body dominant swing is from the top of the swing I'm going to
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immediately extend that right arm in that right wrist before I get my body going.
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Now if you imagine that I was standing in a swimming pool with water up to about
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my knees if I did this cast pattern you can see that the clubhead would be the
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first thing to make contact with the water. So what we're going to do is you're
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going to practice trying to get the butt of the club to make contact with the
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water before the clubhead. In order to do that you're going to work on your
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good transition sequence of shifting into your left heel and letting that right
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elbow come in towards your side while the right wrist kind of flat or cups a
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little bit in the left wrist boasts. All of that will allow you to get your hands
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lower than the clubhead for a very long period of time. Retain that leg and
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come from the inside. So it's a good little visual. We're so really well if you're a
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visual learner for imagining the path that the hands and the club will need to
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follow if you're going to overcome that cast or upper body swing pattern.
